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• Lamentations 4Bible

  Lamentations 4 is a lament over the devastation of Jerusalem when it was besieged and captured by Babylon, contrasting "once" with "now." It closes by declaring that Zion's punishment has ended and that Edom will be judged.

• Lamentations 1Bible

  Lamentations 1 is a lament that portrays fallen Jerusalem as a widow left alone and mourns her devastation. Its 22 verses follow the order of the Hebrew alphabet, and the chapter confesses that the suffering came because of the people's sin.

• Lamentations 3Bible

  Lamentations 3 is a sixty-six-verse lament in which an individual speaker, "I," mourns the suffering endured under God's wrath and then regains hope by remembering the LORD's mercy and faithfulness.

• Lamentations 5Bible

  The final chapter of Lamentations, a communal prayer in which the people who remain after the fall of Jerusalem lay their hunger and disgrace before God and plead for restoration: "Turn thou us unto thee."

• Lamentations 2Bible

  The second poem of the Book of Lamentations, which portrays the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple as the result of the LORD's wrath. It depicts starving children and mocking enemies, urges Zion to cry out to the Lord, and closes with a prayer of lament.

• Lamentations 3:22–23Bible Verses

  Lamentations 3:22–23 is a confession that the LORD's mercies and compassions never fail, that they are new every morning, and that His faithfulness is great. A song of hope that arises from the ruins of Jerusalem's destruction, the passage is also well known as the basis of the hymn "Great Is Thy Faithfulness."

• Lamentations 3:19–26Bible Verses

  Lamentations 3:19–26 is the passage in which a speaker, despairing as he remembers the suffering of Jerusalem's destruction, recalls the mercies and faithfulness of the LORD and turns toward hope. Because of the words "They are new every morning," it is often cited as a text of comfort and for New Year's meditation.

• Daughter of ZionBible

  The Daughter of Zion is a poetic Old Testament expression that personifies Jerusalem and its inhabitants as a woman. It appears frequently in the Prophets and in Lamentations, and the New Testament quotes the title in its accounts of Jesus' entry into Jerusalem.

• Ezekiel 2Bible

  Ezekiel 2 recounts Ezekiel's call to be a prophet. God addresses him as "son of man," sends him to the rebellious children of Israel, and holds out to him a scroll written with lamentations, mourning, and woe.

• EzekielBible

  Ezekiel is the twenty-sixth book of the Old Testament and one of the Major Prophets. Its forty-eight chapters record the visions and prophecies received by Ezekiel, a prophet from a priestly family who ministered during the Babylonian exile.

• MercyBible

  Mercy is compassionate care for those in need. In the Bible it refers to God's compassionate heart and action toward those who suffer, and to the mercy people show one another in imitation of him.

• HopeBible

  Hope is a biblical term referring both to the disposition of trusting and waiting for the fulfillment of God's promises and to the object of that waiting. In the New Testament it is named, together with faith and love, as one of the central Christian virtues.

• IsaiahBible

  Isaiah is the first of the prophetic books of the Old Testament and consists of sixty-six chapters. It contains prophecies of judgment, restoration, and the Messiah, and Christians have long read it as a book containing many passages that point to Jesus Christ.

• Prophetic BooksBible

  The Prophetic Books are the books of the Old Testament that bear the names of prophets. In Protestant usage the term refers to the seventeen books from Isaiah through Malachi, which are divided by length into five Major Prophets and twelve Minor Prophets.

• ParallelismBible

  Parallelism is the characteristic mode of expression in Hebrew poetry, in which the thought of one line is paired with a following line that restates it, contrasts with it, or adds to it. It appears widely in the poetry of the Old Testament, including Psalms and Proverbs, and in the prophetic books.

• Ezekiel 20Bible

  In Ezekiel 20, God answers the elders of Israel who have come to inquire of him by recounting Israel's history of rebellion in Egypt, in the wilderness, and in Canaan, and declares that he will gather his scattered people, judge them, and restore them.